Arcadia - Never a dull moment

For a short while Simon Le Bon,
Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran had some time on their
hands, so they formed the occasional formation Arcadia (in fact a previous
project), that in the end made no more than one album. ‘So Red the Rose’ was
successful nevertheless.

Two paintings of French artist Nicolas Poussin,
dedicated to ‘Les bergers d’Arcadie’ (the Arcadian shepherds) provided the idea
for the group and project name. The canvases display among others a tomb on
which the ambiguous Latin inscription ‘Et in Arcadia ego’ is discernible. The
translation probably is something like ‘even in Arcadia I exist’ (there is life
after death!), or, a bit less dramatic: ‘the person buried in this tomb lived in
Arcadia’.